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Alyson Hunter was born in Auckland New Zealand, one of twins (the artist Alexis Hunter) in 1948. Hunter travelled to London after studying at Elam School of Fine Arts at Auckland Uiversity. She then studied photographic printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art, and the Royal College of Art in the early seventies. In 1974 she married Hugh Stoneman who had set up Islington Studio, a platemaking and etching printing workshop. Hunter then set up Islington Graphics Gallery to promote the use of photography in printmaking. After seeing a set up studio exhibiting her work at the World Trade Centre in St.Kathines Dock, organised by Christies Contempory Art, Wooton Whooley of the Print Center, Covent Garden, asked the Stonemans to create a printers at his premises in Earlam Street. Alyson bought The Studio, North Corner, which had belongs to Dod Proctor,the artist. While in Cornwall she met Adrian Frost, and left England for New York, were she was Master Printer at the Print Workshop.Her daughter Amy Frost was born in New Zealand in 1981.She lives in Charing Cross and her second collection of poetry, Nightbus, is being published by Adelphi Publications, London. Her website is at www.alysonhunter.com